Thanks Sam & Bear!
Because jQuery is becoming more and more popular, it seems to become the standard JS library (if it hasn't already reached this status
) So as a jQuery newbie (mainly because last 2-3 years I wasn't doing a lot of web application development, nor using JS a lot) it will be very interesting to acquire (or with a bit of luck win) a copy of this book to learn the best practices about it and use the API as a reference for quick lookup.
I remember re-engineering
my brother's futsal team website with PHP (original version was just html, js and xml files containing the data without using a js library, that was fun developing and debugging
) as a php-newbie too, it was hard to find best practices to develop this website and I had to refactor it several times.
But I wouldn't underestimate the value of (the online documentation together with) the user comments, because you get snippets, enhancements, remarks,... from novice users but also from real experts (and they were really helpful). Of course you sometimes have to look through 50-60 comments, so it's not as nice presented as in a to-the-point (and according to the reviews, great) book and thus it can get very time consuming.